Friday, August 17, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
rap Eight
Plain Talk,
Hias Seeks Release
Of 240,000 Refugees
about it. . . I raise you again. . ."
So I shouldn't have been sur-
prised at Jan slapping me in the
face with the Jewish problem
NEW YORK — Extension of
first crack out of the box, as they
direct communication between the grt L inO t NtD
a OgN ave( r N a VN th S e ) —
activities
of
A pro-
say.
Kids
do
quickly
pick
up
VISIT WITH JAN
things. But I exclaimed: "Jan! United States and various Euro-
By AL SEGAL
This is a lemon-flavor lollypop! pean countries during the past the Zionist executive until the
month has resulted in a marked Congress is convened was outlined
It's good for all day!"
The child would have none of increase in the number of suc- by Ben-Gurion addressing the
hand
as
I
presented
myself
for
I am currently on my vacation
it. He said: "After all, your being cessful locations of European Conference. The work of the Zi-
Zi-
in the city of Greensboro, North Jan's approval.
my grandfather is only a bio- Jews for their American rela- onists, he said, must be based on
Carolina where, Jan, one of my
I had heard stories about mod- logical accident. The question is tives, Isaac L. Asofsky, executive
t he l. f o p lo lo oN s viv in egoo p d rinacoit p ti v ets ,
several grandchildren resides. To ern children: There is the well- are you worthy to be my grand-
director of the Hebrew Shelter-
see a grandchild you don't mind known case of the kid who de- father."
resistance
ing and Immigrant Aid Society to the implementation and the
going even in the summertime to manded that his grandma tell
I replied I had done my best (HIAS), announced.
one of the Carolinas, and if he him instead about a couple of to be a decent grandfather. 1
continuation of the White Paper
The organization conducts a in its present or a modified form,
happened to be in Louisiana you Chicago gangsters when, for bed- hadn't yet been caught doing any-
would go that far, too, on a sum- time, she began "Once upon a thing meretricious. My credit was Location Service which has to Strengthening of Jewish immigra-
time there was a fairy prince." good in the department stores. I date received inquiries from Am- tion, settlement and security in
mer vacation.
"Tel me about those two so- was a fairly respected man.
erican Jews concerning the Palestine under all circumstances.
Anyway, a patriarch should get
acquainted with his remote grand- and-sos in Chicago," the child said.
The kid said he had heard all whereatouts of 60,000 family
2. Increased political activity
So I shouldn't have been en- that sort of thing before. . . groups, consisting of over 240,-
children from time to time. How
in England and in other United
would it look if a grandchild tirely unprepared for Jan's quick 'Let's agree you're a decent 000 individuals.
Nations centers for the immedi-
didn't know the progenitor of his come-back when I presented the grandfather. So what? The main
lollypop to his mouth in the way question is, What kind of a Jew
being?
"Your grandpa has an idea that ate designation of Palestine as a
appeasement. Yet I was dis-
whenever there is justice for the Jewish State, with authority giv.
If a grandfather never has of
mayed when he pushed the lolly- are It you?"
was shockingly evident to whole human race there will be en to the Jewish Agency or to
been arrested for anything he pop away and asked "How do
feels he has nothing to be as- you stand on the Jewish prob- me that the child had fallen into justice for the Jews as well. We the provisional Jewish Govern-
hamed of when he presents him-
the intellectual environment in aren't separate, Jan. You are ment to effect a speedy transfer
different from all the kids of the first million Jews from
self to his descendant. I myself lem?"
Though I am suppose to be a which being a Jew is the main nobody
could walk confidently in on Jan fellow in weekly touch with Jew- thing. I had mysef been dis- of the world who when they grow European, Oriental and other
whom I hadn't seen for two ish life it turned out that I have tressed my manifestations that up must inherit a world in which countries to Palestine, as well as
years. It was most comforting to been scarcely aware of the deeper suggested the being a Jew was an they will never be called away to further development schemes
be able to come to him with a currents. Even the kids had be- identity somehow seperate from to die for the sake of greeds, which would enable the settle-
most blameless life and say "Jan, come obsessed by the Jewish prob- the rest of the human race; some- hates, prejudices and aggressions.
That's the world I hope you are ment of additional millions while
I'm your grandpa."
lem which is the main absorption thing special.
raising the standard of living of
"Well,
Jan,"
I
replied,
"your
inheriting.
(I mention this in no vain- of their elders. The elders may
both Jews and Arabs.
grandpa
is
a
Jew
who
thinks
that
glory but only to show that it be in the midst of a poker game
"In that world your being a
3. Incessant striving for coop-
pays a grandfather to behave and somebody is holding four being a Jew is only one of his Jew will be just a matter of re-
aces when Mr. Zilch who has a several sides. He doesn't think ligious ideals, just like being a eration with the Arabs in Pales-
himself )
that he is somebody special, re-
Jan who is three and one-half full house may out of a clear quiring special treatment, because Catholic or a Protestant, and what tine to develop the country to its
sky
ask,
"What
o
you
think
looked me over. It was apparent
he is a Jew. He is one of the hu- the hell's the difference in what maximum for the benefit of all
that he was withholding imme- should be done about the White man race and his problems and churchly place you worsip? (Ex- inhabitants. Also an alliance of
cuse me, Jan, for using that friendship between the Jewish
diate approval. These are times Paper in Palestine?"
The man with the four aces his pain are not seperate from naughty word but that's the way State and Arab peoples in the
when even the youngest child is
those
of
the
human
race
in
gen-
a sophisticated person and is not says, "I'm glad you brought that eral. Being a Jew isn't the whole I feel about it.) There is no spe- neighboring countries.
cial Jewish problem; it's all one
to be bribed with a stick of can- up. . . . I raise you. . . I think
thing.
Mrs. Judith Epstein, addressing
problem of the kind of a world
dy. I held a lollypop in my right we should go direct to Truman
all you kids are going to inherit. the conference in behalf of the
"Well, Jan, that's the kind of Hadassah, pleaded for the elim-
Jew your old grandpa is. He goes ination of dissension in the move-
along with all other kinds of ment. She said that the critics
people who are going his way." of the present Zionist administra-
The chid looked at me as if tion are wrong when they sus-
asking with deepest disappoint- pect that the world Zionist exec-
ment, "What kind of a grand- utive is inclined to minimalism.
father have I inherited? What
have I done to get such a grand- She emphasized that American
father? I, a Jewish child, to have Zionists are "absolutely united."
him! What kind of a Jew is
that? He seems an illiterate Jew
entirely unaware that he be-
longs to a Jewish nation."
His displeasure seemed such as
NEW YORK (WNS) — A res-
I have seen in adults when they
looked at me. Children are so olution urging the abrogation of
quick to pick up the prejudices the White Paper and the estab-
of their elders.
lishment of a Jewish national
ex- home in Palestine "in collabora-
Jan
"Assimilationist!"
claimed contemptuously as he re- tion with the Arab people," was
sumed the book he had been read- adopted here at the closing ses-
ing: "1001 Jewish Problems."
(Jan's mother, Marcella, has sion of the special convention of
been reading this over my shoul- the Communist Party of Amer-
der and getting madder every ica.
minute. What do I mean, she asks,
Another resolution demanded
THROUGH THE
by presenting Jan who is a sweet the outlawing of anti-Semitism.
an sensible child, in a false pub-
lic light? People would think he
is being influenced at home. I ex-
pained that a columnist has a
license to use whatever medium
is at hand to get an idea across.
He may use even his own grand-
child. This satisfied Marcella.)
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